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The Lost Thing

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The Lost Thing	comment	Written and illustrated by Shaun Tan, The Lost Thing follows an unnamed narrator as he tells the reader, in flashback, about that time he found a lost thing—the lost thing being some bizarre, giant octopus/crab mix that's wearing a red metallic shell—and tried to find it a home. (The official Shaun Tan website says it's a mix between a potbelly oven and a certain kind of crab.)It was adapted into a 15-minute animated short film in 2010, directed by Tan and Andrew Ruhemann, narrated by Tim Minchin. It won the Academy Award and the Hugo for Best Animated Short.
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The Lost Thing / int_48081842	type	The Stinger
The Lost Thing / int_48081842	comment	The Stinger: After the credits roll, there's a shot of the lost thing janitor, sweeping up papers in the darkened government office.
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The Lost Thing / int_8ec0abf	type	The Voiceless
The Lost Thing / int_8ec0abf	comment	The Voiceless: None of the lost things seem to talk. The one lost thing that tells the boy about the home for lost things doesn't even have a head; he delivers his message via a tape player that is attached to his back.
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The Lost Thing / int_9b7a0921	type	Split Screen
The Lost Thing / int_9b7a0921	comment	Split Screen: One scene has the screen split up into three separate squares as the boy is walking around town trying to find the lost thing.
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The Lost Thing / int_9d6e002e	type	Whole Episode Flashback
The Lost Thing / int_9d6e002e	comment	Whole Episode Flashback: The story is in past tense first person, and the narrator actually states that he's recounting a past event at the beginning of the story.
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The Lost Thing / int_a1fedb67	type	Parental Obliviousness
The Lost Thing / int_a1fedb67	comment	Parental Obliviousness: The narrator had to point out that there's a hulking red thing in his parents' living room; in the illustration it's right behind their chairs.
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The Lost Thing / int_abdf7d09	type	Weirdness Censor
The Lost Thing / int_abdf7d09	comment	Weirdness Censor: Could be why his parents don't notice the lost thing at first, and theorised as a possible reason why the narrator doesn't see many lost things anymore.
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The Lost Thing / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
The Lost Thing / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: Not so much the text, but the pictures reference several paintings, such as Collins Street, 5pm, by John Brack.
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The Lost Thing / int_cf7bd78d	type	Steampunk
The Lost Thing / int_cf7bd78d	comment	Steampunk: The lost thing, and the other odd creatures, but also the town itself, whilst still managing somehow to be incredibly drab.
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The Lost Thing / int_f32528de	type	Cut-and-Paste Suburb
The Lost Thing / int_f32528de	comment	Cut-and-Paste Suburb: More Pete's suburb than the narrator's - he has a backyard, at least.
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The Lost Thing / int_fc225bec	type	Artistic License â€“ Physics
The Lost Thing / int_fc225bec	comment	Artistic License – Physics: Played with in literally the margins around the images. The Lost Thing illustrations are almost entirely surrounded by dry drab thermodynamics educational resource recyclings that look like newspaper articles all the time. The book tells a few jokes with this technique, such as "Know Your Diodes". It is not obvious how accurate the science in the illustrations or text is to any casual reader who did not study thermodynamics or certain other boffin subjects.
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The Lost Thing / int_fe1b2e75	type	Bigger on the Inside
The Lost Thing / int_fe1b2e75	comment	Bigger on the Inside: The narrator's shed looks tiny, but somehow he was able to fit the thing in it, and through the normally-sized doorway, no less.
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